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if I go to "the poor" middle- or eastern europe there are hundreds of providers offering 10 or 20 or even 100 MB SIMMETRIC connections..
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why can't UK isp-s offer "useable" upload speed?
can't understand how can such a rich coutry like UK live whit this nonsense isp-s?
if I go to "the poor" middle- or eastern europe there are hundreds of providers offering 10 or 20 or even 100 MB SIMMETRIC connections..
i know! tell me about it! its cos our country isnt riddled with optic fibres everywhere....lol unlike the rest of europe and south korea :P
okay.. its a point.. but I dont cry for 100/100 to every home.. (ok.. maybe I do :DDD)
just at least an average 2-3 Mb..
at home with the fibre-optic 50 Mb Virgin the max. upspead is around 250 kb/sec.. I'd rather change my connection for a.. 20/10.. or 20/5 at least.. but yeah.. impossible ;}
You think you have it tough... try living in australia buddy.
BigPond® Turbo ADSL
1500/256kbps (187.5kB/s) (32kB/s)
$39.95 2GB
$59.95 12GB
$79.95 25GB
$99.95 50GB
$119.95 100GB
$169.95 200GB
BigPond Elite ADSL
20000/1000kbps (2.5MB/s)(125kB/s) or
8000/384kbps (1MB/s)(48kB/s)
Plan speeds are dependent on which city you live in
$49.95 2GB
$69.95 12GB
$89.95 25GB
$109.95 50GB
$129.95 100GB
$179.95 200GB
That's the pricing from our largest ISP and that's only theoretical speeds, if your miles from the exchange (which is quite often in Australia) then your speeds are half that. If you want cable the prices are higher for less and the speeds aren't much better.
Last edited by thedeh; February 17th, 2010 at 12:23 AM.
You know why? Because they have brand new phone lines (They made them now!), whereas, elsewhere in Europe we have more older copper-based ones. That's what I think.Originally Posted by SeteboS
can't understand how can such a rich coutry like UK live whit this nonsense isp-s?
if I go to "the poor" middle- or eastern europe there are hundreds of providers offering 10 or 20 or even 100 MB SIMMETRIC connections..
because UK is to cheap to put fibre optic around :@
one of my friend said: maybe its not the technical part.. music records and other big media companies are paying more for keep the bandwidth low ;D lol
Dan: uhh.. thats crazy..
^^haha lol
...I live in the US but that must suck
There is no technical reason other than money.
DSL requires expensive equipment to upload data, equipment that companies would rather not have to pay to install in every home. Castrating upload speeds saves installation costs, halves infrastructure upgrade costs, and creates a high margin lucrative market for business connections. DOCSIS 3 upgrades for twice the current bandwidth on cable lines is about $150 per line and companies are fighting every step of the way to avoid paying that. DSL upgrades cost even more per line.
Music and movie companies also don't want high upload bandwidth due to piracy concerns. The idea that bandwidth can be used for something other than file sharing simply doesn't cross their minds. Every time consumers have asked for higher upload speeds, they've been denied on the grounds that only pirates would want it. Never mind the fact that low speed means we can't video conference (telco's celebrated) and VOIP only recently became viable (telco's are still fighting that). I mean, hey, who would want live video of some family event they had to miss because they're shipped overseas or stuck at work or whatever? We're all pirates at heart and need regulation to make sure we don't steal.
No, I'm not bitter.
Really. I'm not.
Ok, maybe.
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